Surname Radan in modern Croatia

Radan families are usually Croats and they are mostly from Sinj area , rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Split and Sinj.

Prevalence

About 690 people with faimily name Radan live in Croatia today, in 300 households. There were 570 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 20 percent.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 35 cities and 50 other places, mostly in Split (180), Zagreb (70), Dugopolje in Solin area (65), Hrvace in Sinj area (45), and in Sinj (35).

Outside Croatia

At least 19 families with this surname emigrated from Croatia to: the United States (9), Germany (4), Australia (2), France (2), Argentina (1), and to the United Kingdom (1).
Family name Radan (including: Rahdan , Radhan and Raddan ) is present in 40 countries worldwide.

Characteristic first names

Damir Radan, Mirjana Radan, Goran Radan, Ivica Radan, Milka Radan, Inge Radan, Sandra Radan, Blanka Radan, Siniša Radan, Nebojša Radan, Srećko Radan, Stjepan Radan, Ljubiša Radan, Zoran Radan, Vinko Radan, Mladen Radan, Ante Radan, Saša Radan, Zvonko Radan

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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